Recently, Lynnda and I attended the Christmas Luncheon at the West Virginia Radio and TV Museum and Hall of Fame at Huntington. One of the presenters mentioned, “One of my claims to fame is, I was ...
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The stealth fighter that got away: Why the YF-23 Black Widow II lost to the F-22 Raptor
Lockheed’s YF-22 wasn’t the inevitable winner of the Air Force’s Advanced Tactical Fighter contest. -Northrop’s YF-23 “Black ...
Last Sunday Lynnda and I attended the Christmas Luncheon at the West Virginia Radio and TV Museum and Hall of Fame at Huntington. One of the presenters mentioned, “One of my claims to fame is, I was ...
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The plane that was never supposed to go faster
On October 14, 1947, a small rocket plane sat waiting over the desert at Muroc Army Air Field. Engineers believed it was ...
The X-1’s fuselage was designed to resemble a .50 caliber bullet—one of the only shapes known to have stable flight at ...
The days of fighter jets outrunning ground defenses are long since past, and new aerial innovations are focused on stealth ...
Armed with Heisman contender Fernando Mendoza, the Hoosiers put together a gritty performance from start to finish to solve ...
November’s top home sales in the Denver metro include the priciest deal of the year in Cherry Hills Village, an Evergreen home on 15 acres and a Cherry Creek penthouse that sold for the second time in ...
CLARK AB, R.P. — Col. Charles E. (Chuck) Yeager, first pilot to crash the sound barrier, says that in spite of safety precautions there will eventually be a major accident in America's space program ...
On 14 October 1947, American Chuck Yeager became the first pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound. Despite having two broken ribs, Chuck reached Mach 1.06 – a speed of more than 1,100km per hour.
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